The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
HENRY JAMESTry to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
More Henry James Quotes
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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